It's a huge story, except it isn't... Nontheless, Billo Reilly is popping his buttons, and Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) is strutting like a turkey in full bloom. (photo: Dori throws another dog on the fire) A UW professor and anti-war activist Amy Hagopian, doesn't like military rec...

The news was big -- it's the end of Talk Radio 570 as we know it. FisherComm pulled the trigger Monday afternoon: heritage talker KVI will flip next week to AM oldies. It ends a 15-year stint for a station widely considered seminal in the talk format. It was the first all-conservative big-mark...

He’s says he’s returning to Seattle radio “with a sense of irony and triumph.” In a deal that’s been percolating for months, Bryan Suits, the rasty, and wry liber-trarian who was fired from KVI in late 2007 is returning to do morning drive (5-9a) at KVI in Kirby Wilbur’s old slot. The irony p...

He’s says he’s returning to Seattle radio “with a sense of irony and triumph.” In a deal that’s been percolating for months, Bryan Suits, the rasty, and wry liber-trarian who was fired from KVI in late 2007 is returning to do morning drive (5-9a) at KVI in Kirby Wilbur’s old slot. The irony p...

He’s says he’s returning to Seattle radio “with a sense of irony and triumph.” In a deal that’s been percolating for months, Bryan Suits, the rasty, and wry liber-trarian who was fired from KVI in late 2007 is returning to do morning drive (5-9a) at KVI in Kirby Wilbur’s old slot. The irony p...

He’s says he’s returning to Seattle radio “with a sense of irony and triumph.” In a deal that’s been percolating for months, Bryan Suits, the rasty, and wry liber-trarian who was fired from KVI in late 2007 is returning to do morning drive (5-9a) at KVI in Kirby Wilbur’s old slot. The irony p...

He’s says he’s returning to Seattle radio “with a sense of irony and triumph.” In a deal that’s been percolating for months, Bryan Suits, the rasty, and wry liber-trarian who was fired from KVI in late 2007 is returning to do morning drive (5-9a) at KVI in Kirby Wilbur’s old slot. The irony p...

He’s says he’s returning to Seattle radio “with a sense of irony and triumph.” In a deal that’s been percolating for months, Bryan Suits, the rasty, and wry liber-trarian who was fired from KVI in late 2007 is returning to do morning drive (5-9a) at KVI in Kirby Wilbur’s old slot. The irony p...

Guess it's not only us talk fans that yearn for real, 24/7 local radio... this from reader Adam: I got off work late last night to find that 950am was still "live and local" covering the firing of Jim Mora the way that KOMO does and KIRO wishes it did when we get half an inch of snow. ...

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

And THEN.....LA County taxes!!! And what do you get back? the state averages a 50% dropout rate from public schools, so you have to pay for private school.
The PERFECT radio deal is: Make LA money. Broadcast from Vancouver, Wa. Shop in (tax free) Portland.

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

For the first and last time i'll give you all some insight into the radio biz:
1: if they fired YOU, you're off the air immediately with no explanation (in Seattle anyway)
2: if LA sucks and there's ONE YEAR on your contract....you stay on the air, but from your Seattle studio (see: Bean from KROQ FM. or Bryan Suits from KFI)
believe it or not, there are many LA radio personalities who reside in Seeeeaddle, yet.....broadcast into Los Angeleeeeeeze. (miracle of that E-web I guess)
My golly, Leo LaPorte does his show from Petaluma..............Which is in California. Now, local boy, Bryan Suits does his KFI part from a TAX-FREE state. So far.

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

storsie!
that is a dangerous and RIDICULOUS claim !!!
it is, in fact, a .444 Marlin Guide Gun with ported barrel. (why us a sledgehammer when you can use....a slightly smaller sledgehammer)
really....45-70. the notion is ludicrous.

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

joanie,
yes, in seattle they do a soviet style "disappearing" when ways are parted. very childish and disrespectful to the audience. KIRO used official silence when i left, and...i didn't pay attention to what KVI did.
at KFI, when you ask to leave, they ask you to stay. that's why KFI is the flagship for my sunday show (like Handel on the law, Leo LaPorte and Coast to Coast). i'll also fill in for john and ken. LA sucks. it is unliveable.
by the way, if you want to hear the best local show in all of talk radio, stream john and ken from 2-7pm on KFI. www.kfiam640.com or just get them from iTunes.
#1 for 10 years. they got gray davis recalled. they don't have a party or a schtick, they're just pissed off taxpayers. they are so blunt and honest, the seattle audience would clutch their pearls and demand an ouster.

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

I'll never forget all those times I forced "sparky" ( an anonymous blogger) to listen to my show. I apologize for this. I now know how wrong it is to forcibly compel others to listen. It exposes them to ideas that they disagree with, and that's unfair. I will, however keep the handcuffs in my car (fur and chrome/nickel).

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

Maybe...in light of my complete lack of ratings, it's not even a radio gig? Did any of you anonymous know-it-alls manage to think of that? Maybe I've become buddies with a certain L.A. gridiron general who needs a mouth piece? Huh?

"Bryan came to us and said he wanted to move back home to Seattle where his family lives," so announced KFI’s program director Robin Bertolucci in a staff email Friday morning. Suits’ last show in LA will be Friday, Jan. 15. The Question: where’s he going in Seattle? Bertolucci writes, “Bryan...

Here's my favorite so far,
"I hope he dies. The world would be a better place, and maybe civil debate in this torn up democracy would be able to flower once again."
Sandra B.
Soooo...Sandra HOPES Rush dies, so we can be civil? Please tell me she's a Mistress of Sarcasm. Sadly, i sense not. When was this mythical period of civility in American politics? 1860? 1960?
BTW- Walter Winchell wasn't competing with TV...yet.

Rush Limbaugh, 58, was taken to Queens Medical Center in Honolulu complaining of chest pains. He is in serious condition, according to KITV. Bud “Teabag” Philson, of Memphis, told the AP he believed the president’s “black ops detail” had attacked the talk host on the golf course with a “poiso...

We’re happy to report that the fledgling, Mouthing Off,(KVI 6-7p Sundays) has survived to blab another day… Seattle veteran talk host, Kirby Wilbur was fired after 16 years at KVI and ignominiously led out the back door last week with his stuff in a cardboard box. The little show with KVI pro...

Radio's going through a ruff/rough patch, that's for sure.
KABC is ALL infomercial after 6 PM !!!!! In Los ANGELES!!
I recommend those with the talent start owning the product. The ability to spend an afternoon setting up a pay-4-podcast sight is tantalizing. it also allows the blog-hards to put there mouths where there typepads are. only a few people can sit in an empty room and create an audience.
Andrew Breitbart is a weekender at KFI.

Kirby Wilbur, freshly dismissed after 16 years at KVI, is speaking out on his blog. Sounds like his is just another case of Fisher Communications acting badly with the trusted help. GM Jim Clayton said Friday in statement that the termination was for poor ratings. Kirby says Clayton had to say...

UPDATE: Kirby will be replaced with Laura Ingraham and John Gibson. Behold the new syndic-robot KVI. (Weissbach doesn't count- they don't pay him). See below for new schedule. The Seattle early morning earscape has again felt a seismic shift: With the typical Fisher aplomb, Kirby Wilbur has be...